Minister for State with responsibility for Community Development and Charities, Jerry Buttimer TD has launched a new national awareness campaign to show how LCDC’s (Local Community Development Committees) connect public bodies and communities across Ireland by bringing them around the same table so that services are better planned, coordinated and responsive to local needs.

For more information: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-rural-and-community-development-and-the-gaeltacht/policy-information/local-community-development-committees-lcdcs/

Local Community Development Committee (LCDC)

The Local Government Act 2014 provides that each Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) will be established as a committee of the Local Authority. The Wicklow LCDC was established in 2014. The LCDC comprises of representatives who are members of the Local Authority, other state agencies, community and voluntary sector and social partners. The balance of representation between the sectors is intended to be balanced in favour of the non-statutory sector. The LCDC is independent of the Local Authority in the discharge of its functions.

Members of Wicklow LCDC include: